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title: He could see into all the rooms and halls, where everything was very… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He could see into all the rooms and halls, where everything was very grand; all the furniture was of white ivory, inlaid with gold and pearl. Who acts: troll, everything, furniture. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 10

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He could see into all the rooms and halls, where everything was very grand; all the furniture was of white ivory, inlaid with gold and pearl.

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**Who acts:** troll, everything, furniture · **What happens:** see, be, inlay · **To what, where:** rooms, white ivory

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, everything, furniture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:27:10
# text = He could see into all the rooms and halls, where everything was very grand; all the furniture was of white ivory, inlaid with gold and pearl.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	inlaid	inlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | troll |  |  | all rooms and halls |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | all furniture |  |  |  |  | of white ivory | tree rules |
| 4 | **inlay** | participle |  | white ivory *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold and pearl | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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